With hype comes disappointment

[robotmonkey]

The synth itself doesn't make a good music Even most vintage synth can't help.

You're obviously completely mistaken on this one. Of course synths do make good music. The more expensive a synth is the better music it makes. And if it's a true vintage synth the music will be even better.

[robotmonkey]

I was already into electronic music for many years so Jarre didn't seem to be doing anything new, despite this I bought Oxygene thinking it deserved a chance but sold it soon after - it was just too simplistic and boring musically for me.

So, you were in the avant-garde classical electronic music? If that's the case, I can understand what you feel. Compared to the classical masters, I may agree that he sounded simplistic.

Not just, also interested in Jazz musicians like Paul Bley and Annette Peacock who were experimenting with electronics, plus various 'prog', 'art' and experimental rock bands who had been using synths and samples for yonks.

Jarre's first albums were quite ok. But definitely not groundbreaking or novel. Several musicians had already fully ventured into this territory earlier. Bands and musicians like Larry Fast/Synergy, Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, various prog bands and so on.

[fmr]

Jarre's first albums were quite ok. But definitely not groundbreaking or novel. Several musicians had already fully ventured into this territory earlier. Bands and musicians like Larry Fast/Synergy, Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, various prog bands and so on.

Not groundbreaking, I agree. But nevertheless, he had his own style, more melodic and light than the germans, and his own sound, based on the string sounds of the Eminent, and the solo lines of the ARP, coupled with the special FX of the VCS3/Synthi-As. I may say that this style is typically french, and can be observed, somewhat, in other french bands, like Space Art (of Onyx fame), Space (of Magic Fly fame - this is another band, not to be confused with the previously mentioned), etc.

[robotmonkey]

Jarre's first albums were quite ok. But definitely not groundbreaking or novel. Several musicians had already fully ventured into this territory earlier. Bands and musicians like Larry Fast/Synergy, Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, various prog bands and so on.

Not groundbreaking, I agree. But nevertheless, he had his won style, more melodic and light than the germans, and had his own sound, based on the string sounds of the Eminent, and the solo lines of the ARP, coupled with the special FX of the Synthis. I may say that this style is typically french, and can be observed, somewhat, in other french bands, like Space Art (of Onyx fame), Space (of Magic Fly fame - this is another band, not to be confused with the previously mentioned), etc.

This actually what I also wanted to say but was too lazy to type Jarre definitely has it's own sound that can be described as French and that was shared with other French and Canadian bands like Clearlight, Tim Blake, Alain Goraguer and others.

[Gamma-UT]

If people are going to pursue the argument that an artist can't be appreciated in electronic music unless they were somehow groundbreaking you might as well just cite Terry Riley (proto-Berlin school, Motorik, techno) and Morton Subotnick (everything else with whoops and bleeps) and stop there.

Oh, and Paul Hindemith for sampling. That should do it.